Chapter 216: CH. 216 | Heavenly Lightning at Danxia Peak
Lin Tian sat down cross legged, forming a hand seal, then channeled his primordial energy into the cauldron in front of him.
He hadn’t come just to contribute his own energy, he was also there to help bind every herbal essence together into one unified whole.
The straightforward goal of this pill refinement was to purify all the herbal ingredients into a single tier 4 pill.
Luo Mei had insisted on creating this pill as a milestone achievement for the Pill Refinement Hall.
His eyes stayed closed, focused entirely on channeling a massive amount of primordial energy into the cauldron.
Refining a pill like this would normally take a considerable amount of time, but thanks to the sheer strength of primordial energy and Lin Tian’s steady control over it, the process moved along far faster than usual.
Before long, a burst of spiritual energy rippled through Danxia Peak. Rumbling clouds gathered overhead, accompanied by the crash of heavenly lightning.
Every disciple at the hall looked up, their eyes fixed on that lightning.
They’d heard rumors that pills above tier 3 could summon powerful thunder, something only those at the Nascent Soul stage could handle.
Through his soul’s awareness, Lin Tian could see the herbal essences finishing their fusion, the pill’s form taking complete shape. He opened his eyes and looked over at Luo Mei.
"It’s time, Mei’er."
Luo Mei nodded, understanding immediately, "Pill... rise!"
The cauldron’s lid burst open, and a pillar of blue light shot skyward, tearing through the rumbling black clouds, kicking up powerful winds and drawing down even fiercer lightning.
Slowly, a deep ocean blue pill rose into the air. One by one, they stopped channeling their qi, Luo Mei and Lin Tian included.
"Now it’s your turn to face the heavenly lightning, Master Lin."
Lin Tian went quiet, then looked up along with everyone else, watching the rumbling thunder.
If he was too slow dealing with that lightning, it could strike the pill directly and destroy it, wasting everything they’d worked for.
He raised his hand and formed a fairly intricate hand seal. As he activated the technique, he told Luo Mei to take her disciples and move away from Danxia Peak.
Luo Mei understood and left, her disciples following close behind. Now Lin Tian stood there alone, ready, with magical runes already forming behind his back.
To him, the heavenly lightning he was about to face wasn’t nearly as strong as the heavenly thunder he’d endured breaking through to Soul Formation.
Lightning from a tier 4 pill refinement wouldn’t do him any real harm.
Still, it would be foolish to meet that lightning head on with nothing but his bare fists. He raised his hand skyward and unleashed his strongest technique to hold the lightning back.
He released the Mountain Destroying Palm Wind Technique to clash directly with the heavenly lightning. A white glowing palm shot upward and collided with the bolt.
Waves of spiritual energy spread far beyond the peak of Danxia. The sect disciples watched in awe, this being the first time any of them had seen Lin Tian face down heavenly lightning directly.
At Tianxun Peak, An Yue, who’d been waiting there for a while, turned her attention to the side.
Her eyes caught the lightning striking Danxia Peak, and Lin Tian’s palm strike clashing against it.
"I know you can handle that lightning," An Yue murmured softly.
What An Yue expected came true exactly as she’d hoped.
Lin Tian’s palm shot skyward and held the lightning bolt back with sheer force. Luo Mei and her disciples watched, thoroughly impressed.
"Look! Sect Leader Lin did it, Hall Master Luo."
Luo Mei nodded with a smile, well aware that heavenly lightning from pill refinement was nothing more than a minor obstacle for Lin Tian.
Watching his display of strength left her feeling inspired, eager to follow in his footsteps someday.
The lightning was pushed back, retreating into the rumbling black clouds above. Lin Tian’s palm attack didn’t stop there, he kept pressing forward, punching a hole straight through the black clouds, clearing them away and letting the sky over Danxia Peak turn bright and clear again.
Lin Tian raised his hand and drew the successfully refined tier 4 pill toward him. He turned around and opened his palm.
"Congratulations, all of you!"
"You’ve successfully refined a tier 4 pill."
Luo Mei and her disciples looked thrilled. They flew closer, eager to get a direct look at the tier 4 pill, the very gateway toward legendary tier pills.
"That’s genuinely a tier 4 pill."
"I never imagined I’d get to see a tier 4 pill in my lifetime."
Lin Tian handed the pill to Luo Mei, and she accepted it immediately. Her cheeks flushed red with delight, clearly moved by how much Lin Tian had helped her.
"Thank you, Master Lin."
"Seems like I passed your test," Lin Tian said.
"You did far more than that," Luo Mei said, tucking the pill safely into her bag of holding.
She stretched out her hand, pointing toward Tianxun Peak, "Please, Master Lin. Senior Sister An Yue is already waiting for you there."
Lin Tian nodded, then shot off fast, leaving Danxia Peak behind and arriving at Tianxun Peak.
He landed in the courtyard in front of the hall, walking a short distance toward An Yue, who’d already been sitting there for a while, dressed in a red gown with a veil covering her face.
"Yue’er?"
As Lin Tian stepped forward, his foot accidentally triggered a hidden mechanism, activating a formation that enclosed him once again.
In an instant, An Yue and the surrounding area transformed into an unfamiliar vast landscape, filled with volcanoes and streams of molten lava, thick plumes of steam rising off the flowing lava, billowing high into the sky.
Lin Tian realized something at once, what had just happened to him wasn’t some illusion formation, it was a genuine dao dimension.
Only one person in the Lingxian Sect could wield a Dao Dimension besides himself, and that person’s dao concept centered on volcanoes.
"A volcanic dao concept? Now this is interesting!"
He turned to look ahead and watched a massive volcano erupt, spewing molten lava into the air.
From within that eruption, Cao Ying emerged, standing on the sky floor, dressed in her signature red gown that matched her dao concept perfectly.
"Their tests might feel easy to you, but not to me."
"Your task is simple: help me understand my own dao!"